Kona Christian Academy and Makua Lani Christian High School will hold their silent auction and steak dinner fundraiser from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at Hale Halawai in Kailua-Kona. The event also offers entertainment, Christmas shopping and a dessert bake sale.
Steak fry benefits
two Christian schools
Kona Christian Academy and Makua Lani Christian High School will hold their silent auction and steak dinner fundraiser from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at Hale Halawai in Kailua-Kona. The event also offers entertainment, Christmas shopping and a dessert bake sale.
For more information, to donate an item or service to the auction, or to purchase dinner tickets, call 329-3093.
HPA’s lower school students to perform
Hawaii Preparatory Academy second- and third-graders will present “Biomes: Animals and Plants in Their Habitats” at 1:45 p.m. Friday at the Gates Performing Arts Center on the school’s upper campus. The musical performance is free and open to the public and presented in conjunction with the students’ life science curriculum. Lower school music teacher Georgia Polakova directs.
The story is about a motley group of animals that escapes from the zoo in search of its own proper biome. To survive, the animals will have to learn about the desert, forest, grassland, freshwater, tundra and marine areas for which they are adapted.
This is the second in a series of musical productions by the lower school students. The kindergarten and first-grade classes will perform in February.
For more information, call 885-2501 or 885-2500.
Variety of electives offered at Honokaa
Students entering Honokaa High School from Waimea Middle School — current eighth-graders — and Paauilo — current ninth-graders — will register for their elective courses for the 2013-14 academic year as they transition. Honokaa offers many electives for students to choose from. The Career Technical and Education Department features six established pathways grouped by similar interests, knowledge and skills: arts and communications, business, health services, industrial and engineering, natural resources and public and human services.
Contact CTE Coordinator Manuel Jadulang at manuel_jadulang@notes.k12.hi.us for more about the CTE programs; contact Registrar Steve Hanks for general registration information at steve_hanks@notes.k12.hi.us.
For information about electives at Honokaa, visit honokaa-web.sharepoint.com/Departments/CTE/SitePages/Home.aspx. The 2013-14 course catalog is online at honokaa-web.sharepoint.com/ParentsStudents/School_Forms/SitePages/Home.aspx.
HPA handbell choir
to perform concerts
The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Middle School Handbell Choir, under the direction of Georgia Polakova, offers a series of free public performances to welcome the holiday season:
c 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Parker Ranch Tree Lighting at Puuopelu
c noon Sunday in the Parker Ranch Shopping Center Food Court, during Lokahi festivities for the “Big Island Giving Tree” project
c 9 a.m. Dec. 8 at Parker School Farmers Market
c 5 p.m. Dec. 8 at Kings’ Shops, Waikoloa
c 1 p.m. Dec. 9 at Prince Kuhio Plaza, Hilo
The handbell choir, a middle school elective, has been part of the HPA experience for more than 25 years. The group’s CD, “A Ka Makani Christmas,” is available for $10 at all performances, at the HPA Bookstore, HPA Village Campus office, Isaacs Art Center and online at hpa.edu. All proceeds benefit the HPA Middle School Handbell Choir. For more information about the holiday performances, call 885-2500 or 885-2501.
Financial aid workshops offered
High school seniors and their parents are invited to a Free Application for Federal Student Aid workshop at 6 p.m. Dec. 5 in Kealakehe High School’s library. Jeff Scofield, financial aid administrator at University of Hawaii at Hilo, will share information about scholarships, grants, loans and work-study programs. FAFSA forms are online at fafsa.gov.
College Goal Sunday will begin at 1 p.m. Jan. 20 at Kealakehe High School. Financial aid administrators from University of Hawaii at Hilo and school counselors will assist students and parents in the process of filling out the FAFSA. Bring 2012 IRS tax returns, W-2 forms and any other income and benefits information.
No registration is needed; all are welcome to these free presentations.